PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

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He looked humiliated afterwards, you hate to see it

ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link

all I can see is subhuman vermin... this long war has taken its toll on me!

calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link

(the calz/xyz rhetorical style of screaming and shooting wildly at literally anyone who gets close enough for them to see the whites of the eyes has my full endorsement as a method of coping with the stress of society's incipient collapse, but it can leave onlookers & victims alike unelucidated as to what opinions they actually wish everyone would hold)

Glad I caught on this one gem of a post (usually looking at the last 50). Oh I am so sorry you feel like this sic please post Ian Dunt's opinions on this thread more often I'll try to keep my 'screaming' to myself.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link

hey I endorsed it

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link

I do see people with his politics who can't stand JC. So its something beyond policy. I don't know if that in itself will be enough to keep him from No 10.

― xyzzzz__,

Its true that if Pidcock, Vardy or any other person on the left gets in they too will undergo similar treatment and become mysteriously disliked too....but only to an extent. Its much deeper than policy which huge sections of the electorate dgaf anyway. Its psychological and deep rooted, the fact of the matter is some people don't like geography teachers and university lecturers.

But until his Leicester contract runs out it is what it is

anvil, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link

me being me I thought he looked kinda beautiful and sad and I would feel a pang of regret watching him mount the scaffold


you might not tho, there’s only one way to know for sure

don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link

soon, my friend. Soon.

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link

my fav articulated knee-jerk disgust at corbs was nakh (rip) describing him as "shambling fakir/low church preacher"

ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link

In my London bubble the people I see disliking Corbyn are:

1. People who think he hasn’t done enough on Brexit or are Corbyn Leave Voter truthers (to which I have always said, that’s bollocks, Ireland/ECJ, long game, bear with him).
2. ‘That’s not leadership/we have NO OPPOSITION’ tbh he is not following the leadership model drilled into British people from school onward, it’s a bit more Woodcraft in Corbynworld. These people are never able to nutshell exactly what leadership means to them but often mentioned Yvette Cooper, LOL.
3. Jewish people/Islamophobes/hawks who were reluctant to vote for Ed Miliband after he made it party policy in 2014 to recognise Palestinian statehood claims and left then (when Jewish support for Labour nosedived) but a gentile advocating the exact same thing is obvs a raging antisemite who will endanger Jewish people and cares more about The Muslims.
4. Privileged feminists and TERFs banging on about The Brocialists, who say they are now voting LibDem.

coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link

I thought it was pom/Fred level 'he is Putin's puppet'

Hey Alphie, has it ever occurred to you… that you might be a bully and a troll and a liar?

Give it a rest ffs.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link

removing the whip from 20+ MPs (including churchill's grandson no less!) going down like a bucket of cold sick today - you simply love to see it. makes them look slightly deranged - though have to admire the chutzpah... and only wish JC had been half as ruthless.

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:05 (four years ago) link

That list is growing pom.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link

the list is largely innaccurate bcz you don't read carefully, you can't just liken ppl to fred and not expect pushback

mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link

Apols if point already made but I thought the Slouching Mogg picture was a great visual representation of the man’s hypocrisy - had it been anyone else he’d have been on his feet making some long-winded speech of admonishment for the poor form.

That’s on top of his own recent defiance of the whip.

michaellambert, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link

slouching towards bedlam

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link

the list is largely innaccurate bcz you don't read carefully, you can't just liken ppl to fred and not expect pushback

― mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink

They are pals I thought he'd be flattered.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link

Who is he?
- went to Eton
- went to Oxford
- was in Bullingdon
- ran London
- became Foreign Secretary
- was considered great orator, writer & historian
- became PM
- lost his first vote as PM
- eventually got bored with politics.

It’s Archibald Primrose, the Earl of Rosebery.

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) September 4, 2019

mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link

considered great orator, writer & historian

🤔

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:24 (four years ago) link

the fact of the matter is some people don't like geography teachers and university lecturers.

A relative has a real dislike of McD that when pressed collapses into just 'it's in his eyes, he look untrustworthy' shit osmosed thru negative media spin

nashwan, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link

"eventually" comes from a careless skim of the wikipedia page i think: rosebery was bored of politics (also bad at it) i think even before he became PM and he was PM for only just over a year before the libs were booted out of power, beginning their great slide to perdition

many of his projects were frustrated by his own party

mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link

Oh yeah out in the shires a lot of people think McDonnell is Semtex in human form.

coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:29 (four years ago) link

My right wing cousin says about McD that the lack of dislike is the real worry ("Wolf in sheep's clothing", "Dangerous operator"), its the fact that he DOESN'T dislike him that really sets the alarm bells off for him. It should be more obvious on a psychological level that he is a future mass murderer and garage stealer, what if people don't realize?

anvil, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:30 (four years ago) link

My guess would be most people in the UK don’t have an opinion on John McDonnell.

AlanSmithee, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link

I can't imagine why anyone could have any less than utter unconditional love for McD

calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link

there is an actor melt who I crossed swords with on a football forum after he said unkind things about McD. The ex-Coronation Street star couldn't articulate what he didn't like about McD, but this was someone who thought Owen Smith "was just the right type of leadership the PLP needs right now".

calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:07 (four years ago) link

also this luvvie described the Alan Johnson memoir as "a great read"

calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link

bouncing yourself into an election just as the economy is going into recession and real wages are falling. strategic genius

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link

92 amendments tabled in the Lords, they are gonna go hard on the filibuster

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link

Alan Smithee is correct


These are the percentages of voting age adults, not just the Labour party, who responded "I have not heard of them" to each politician:

Barry Gardiner = 87%
Angela Rayner = 66%
Keir Starmer = 58%
John McDonnell = 50%
Tom Watson = 49%
Emily Thornberry = 49%
Shami Chakrabarti = 47%

gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:11 (four years ago) link

Barry Gardiner = 87%

thank fsck

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link

Tom Tugendhat = 0%

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link

SV to thread

gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link

I have never heard of Tom Watson

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link

feeling very seen and shamed that i *know* who all those ppl are tbrr

i shd take up something non-toxic and useful, maybe pokemon

mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link

There are obvious similarities

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link

Watson is that steroids guy who bravely brought down the paedo ring, that Kevin Costner movie The Untouchables is based on him

calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link

If this the last week or so is a tactical error by Cummings/Johnson, what should they have done differently. If you want to leave on the most definitive terms possible, what was the right move here?


1000000 xposts but they nearly had it right! Their route to success has always been “have an election blamed on someone else before the 31st, with No Deal on the table (to keep BXP onside) and with Brexit undefined (to keep the country onside), and bribe people to forget austerity.”

Which is what they’re trying to do. But:

1. They had to make No Deal feel real but not imminent. Remain votes kept failing because rebels thought they still had time to work with. Prorouging meant they felt time running out and became willing to take career-limiting risks.

2. They had to make a deal seem tangible. Phoning in the “negotiations” so transparently undermined that too.

3. I am pretty sure they just plain forgot they couldn’t call an election all by themselves (most of the commentariat did too). He has never looked weaker than when saying “I don’t want an election and Crumbum won’t even give me the one I don’t want“

stet, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link

l-r: johnson, cummings
https://i.imgur.com/8WwvFwG.jpg

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link

xp how would you get the bants when Big Baz goes off though

Last night was a gift to memes

I’d like to bring something to Westminster’s attention pic.twitter.com/rkLcFNHfJz

— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 3, 2019



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— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 4, 2019



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— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 3, 2019

gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link

after last night I need a new fav Tory. I'm concerned Tommy Tugz smile is too bland & Dec-ish, but he does apparently speak dari

ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link

Scottish judge chucked out the "no proragation" case

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link

Gina McKee and John Majors still at bat tomorrow tho

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link

Northern Ireland one still on, too, I think?

coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link

yesterday the FT said Sobez had one with Jess Phillips as well?

ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link

I've lost track of which one's which tbh

Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link

Sleepwalking into disaster pic.twitter.com/C06GRR4H1O

— cyriak harris (@cyriakharris) September 4, 2019

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link

jacob rees-qwop

самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link

cyriak :D

imago, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link

The JRM picture says more than a thousand words. But these are some sweet words imo:


Rees-Mogg's 'arrogant' speech cost government four extra vote, says Tory rebel

Turning back to Jacob Rees-Mogg, it has emerged that he single-handedly managed to push the size of the rebellion last night over the 20 mark. In an interview with the Today programme’s Ross Hawkins, Guto Bebb, one of the most prominent rebels, said that Rees-Mogg’s speech helped to persuade four MPs to join him in voting against the government. Bebb said:

There were at least four individuals who were still doubtful who changed their position to being supportive and voting with us on the back of Jacob’s performance. He was deemed to be arrogant, out of touch and I think the way in which he treated some of the interventions was a red rag to bull in many cases.

Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link

Philip Lee said he quit cos of the way JRM dismissed the doctor worried about no deal

gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link


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